Dr. Tim Conway

Who We Are

The Neuro-development of Words – NOW!® Company provides
research-based programs that prevent or improve learning difficulties and
enrich language skills for children and adults.

The methods in the NOW! Programs have been in development for decades. The
current versions of the NOW! Programs are designed for easy implementation
in classrooms, small-groups or one-on-one settings. These research-based
methods effectively improve the skills of students with learning
disabilities or learning difficulties. The NOW! Programs are uniquely
designed to improve the most likely causes of learning difficulties, such
as weaknesses in specific thinking or processing skills in the areas of:

Phonological processing

Visual working memory

Auditory working memory

Sequencing numbers, letters and/or ideas

Verbal memory

Mental imagery

These weaknesses in foundation skills will likely cause struggles with
fully developing more advanced academic skills, including reading,
spelling, writing, comprehension/memory, arithmetic, reasoning and
problem-solving. Just like building a house, if there are deficits or
deficiencies in the foundation of a house, then the upper levels of the
house are likely to always have problems. When students struggle to develop
their academic skills, then they do not perform them independently or
accurately, and they are not functioning at age or grade appropriate
levels. Commonly, the majority of their classmates continue to keep up with
the grade-level assignments, but these students with weak foundational
skills and academic skills continue to fall further and further behind.
Mistakenly, parents are told myths like "wait and see", "boys learn
language later than girls", "reading just has not clicked for him yet", "he
needs more time to mature" and "you can’t assess reading skills until 3rd
grade." These myths are not supported by scientific research and despite
being well-intentioned pieces of advice, they cause more harm than good for
children who are struggling. This is particularly the case when research
shows that these academic skills can be greatly improved by using the NOW!
Programs.

What We Do

For many years, NOW! Programs have helped private medical clinics that
specialize in improving reading, spelling, writing, comprehension, memory,
reasoning/problem-solving, language, and speech difficulties in children
and adults. Dr. Conway and the NOW company’s dissemination of
research-based methods to help children and adults with learning
difficulties is not new – his companies' partnerships with local, national
and international schools, non-profits, families and organizations are
decades long and still growing and helping thousands of children and adults
reach their true learning potential. No more strategies, no more years of
tutoring, no more being held back in school and repeating a grade, Instead
NOW! Programs help students of all ages excel and show long-lasting
improvements in their learning and academic skills. Don't take our word for
it, let our students tell you themselves.

Benefits of NOW! programs

Universities, colleges, private schools, public schools, faith-based
schools, library literacy programs' tutors, and international schools in
the USA and third-world countries like Trinidad and Tobago have had the
remarkable experience of seeing children and adults literally make years of
gain in their skills after only a few months of NOW! Programs™.

In contrast, the most popular educational programs for children and adults
with learning difficulties commonly require several years of instruction.
However, even after years of instruction, these programs rarely help
students reach their true potential. Typically, these educational programs
have weak or no scientific evidence that they will be effective for a
majority of students with difficulties. Also, these programs commonly have
limited outcomes and only teach students and adults "strategies" to work
around or learn to compensate for their learning difficulties. Typically,
these programs teach students and adults "strategies" to work around or
learn to compensate for students’ learning difficulties. Teaching
strategies or work-arounds is an out of service or outdated approach.
Science from the 21st century shows that children and adults with learning
difficulties deserve much more than a "work-around" or a crutch to try and
get by or cope with their learning difficulties.

Research-based and Evidence-based

The new, real science of how to promote neural plasticity or efficient and
long-lasting learning is in the methods in the NOW! Programs. Also, the
NOW! Programs are based on neuro-developmental research models of how these
academic and language skills typically develop for children or adults who
do NOT have learning difficulties. These models identify foundational
abilities (thinking or processing skills) that are required for these
academic skills to fully develop. This is a second key part of the methods
in the NOW! Programs, as knowing these foundational skills means we don’t
have to "wait and see" or "wait and hope" that these skills will somehow at
some unknown time "click" and lead to better academic abilities. Instead,
with 21st Century science, NOW! Programs can efficiently and effectively
improve these academic abilities, with long-lasting results. No more
guessing. No more randomly trying different strategies, programs, tutors
and teachers, or blindly hoping that something might "work" this year to
make learning easier. The NOW! Programs are designed to build a solid
foundation in sensory processing and thinking skills, from which the more
advanced academic abilities will be developed too. And research, not just
our own, but of other professionals in our field, has shown these programs
to be effective.

Therefore, the NOW! Programs can help students of all ages, including
children, adolescents, college students and adults to improve the most
likely cause of their learning difficulties and to be more likely to
achieve their full academic and life potential.

Are the NOW! Programs right for me?

Do you or your child struggle with reading accuracy, reading rate, reading
comprehension? Then the NOW! Foundations for Speech, Language, Reading and
Spelling program is designed specifically for you to help you improve these
skills. This NOW! Foundations can help children and adults with learning
disabilities or difficulties (e.g. slow reading, poor comprehension due to
reading errors, poor spelling skills) too. NOW! Programs can be
provided online through live, fun, engagingly interactive eTutoring
sessions, with highly trained teachers, either in one-on-one sessions or in
small/large group formats.

Designed for everyone from educators and SLP's to parents of children with
learning difficulties, our trainings will educate, inspire, and empower you
to teach the skills targeted by each of our NOW!® programs. We will be
offering these trainings throughout the year. NOW! offers training for
teachers to support students with language difficulties and provide
resources online to assist in implementation of programs.

Proven track record

NOW! programs make use of scientific principles developed at professional
clinical and educational organizations for over 27 years with regard to the
neuro-development of speech, language, reading and spelling skills. Dr.
Conway and colleagues have conducted extensive research designed to analyze
and augment methodology and implementation of practices developed in each
program. Very few tutoring programs have research-based models, and even
fewer have results that are repeatedly proven like the NOW! Company does.

Listen to the testimonials from other families. The results will speak for
themselves. NOW! Company has also partnered with local schools, most recently
The Villages Charter School, The Einstein School, and Ambleside School of
Ocala. More are on the way. NOW! Programs believes that the better educated
and equipped schools are, the more children they can reach.

Professional Development

Professional Development courses in the NOW! Programs™ are designed for
everyone from educators and SLPs to parents of children with learning
difficulties and tutors. These professional trainings will educate,
inspire, and empower you to teach the skills targeted by each of the four
NOW! Programs. We offer these trainings throughout
the year and provide resources online to assist in implementation of
programs.